Software Development Engineer, Inventory Placement

Come and be a part of Amazons amazing growth story! If you are looking for an opportunity to solve deep technical problems and build innovative solutions in a fast paced environment working with smart passionate software engineers this might be the role for you! Amazon Supply Chain Optimization Technology (SCOT) powers Amazons fulfillment network determining how much of a given product is needed at locations around the world in order to ensure product availability while maintaining optimal inventory levels at each storage location. This includes strategically placing vendor orders and moving inventory across our network to serve customer demand as quickly as possible at reduced cost. (Learn more about SCOT:

Are you excited by being able to have Amazon deliver items to your front door within hours Are you fascinated by Amazons ability to combine your online shopping into fewer boxes and shipments All of these amazing customer experiences are possible because of Inventory Placement we get the right inventory to the right place at the right time!

Our Inventory Placement team owns the systems that decide where in Amazons fulfillment network to put inventory for the millions of products that Amazon sells. We build optimization models to make these placement decisions driven by signals such as forecasted customer demand the cost and speed of shipping from each warehouse to each customer and the available capacity at various points in our network. Inventory placement is central to achieving Amazons objectives to minimize the cost of fulfillment while offering selection to customers at the fastest possible delivery speeds. Our systems are built entirely inhouse for automated large scale supply chain planning and optimization systems. Were simultaneously developing the science of supply chain planning and solving some of the toughest computational challenges at Amazon.

Inventory Placement team is seeking Software Development Engineer to develop next generation software to drive transformative changes in how we think about moving and placing inventory in Amazons fulfillment network.

Key job responsibilities
In this role you will

* Design Develop and maintain large scale distributed systems.
* Work with team members to devise design approaches prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
* Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software.
* Collaborate with Senior and Principal Engineers Research Scientists and Data Engineers to design and develop solutions for optimizing Amazon Supply Chain.
* Expand and optimize our worldclass supply chain systems to support a variety of emerging business initiatives.



About the team
We have a team culture that encourages innovation and expect developers and management alike to take a high level of ownership for the product vision technical architecture and project delivery.

3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language

3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.